http://linkedith.kaywa.com/en2010-01-11T06:08:02Zhourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://linkedith.kaywa.com/perso/nostalgia-2-early-years-in-french-boarding-school.html College Capron, Cannes, A.M., France It feels good to scan all those old pics and, together with others, reconstruct a...2010-01-11T06:08:02ZEdith Ackermannperso
College Capron, Cannes, A.M., France

It feels good to scan all those old pics and, together with others, reconstruct a memory of our early years in Capron, Cannes, a French state boarding school where i spent 5 years of my life (between the ages of 13 to 18). Check out the photo album.

some of this is like out of a movie.
]]>http://linkedith.kaywa.com/perso/special-nostalgia-piaget-collaborators-geneva-sept-dec-2009.html and more... and again For information about the exhibit, visit the website. The good news, beyond "nostalgia"? Many of...2009-10-03T23:00:00ZEdith Ackermannperso

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For information about the exhibit, visit the website. The good news, beyond "nostalgia"? Many of the written materials from the Archives Jean Piaget are now available online. Check it out.]]>http://linkedith.kaywa.com/activities/feeling-the-wheel.html Photo: Rebecca Horn, 1972 Check out the short video snippet feeling the wheel Video: Cheryl Akner-Koler, 2009) For more...2009-10-01T23:19:15ZEdith Ackermannprojects
Photo: Rebecca Horn, 1972


Check out the short video snippet feeling the wheel

Video: Cheryl Akner-Koler, 2009)

For more information, visit the website or download pdf file NanoFormgiving through haptic, aesthetic laborations:

This project involves a team of professionals and researchers from the arts, sciences, learning sciences, life sciences and natural sciences interested in rethinking the intricacies between direct and mediated experience in human learning. Research questions include: How to get “a feel for" things we cannot grab? How to get“a handle" on things beyond our reach? — in this case because they exist at a micro or nano scale. More generally, how do we make sense of things we cannot experience directly (be in touch with or act upon). Thisnote addresses the relations between direct and mediated touch: from finger, to hand, to tool (or probe), to instrument; as well as between visual and tactile exploration: from eye to hand—and back! and between perceiving (or sensing) and measuring (or probing). For more on this, check out discussion points. You may also download a short essay by Edith Ackermann, entitled Mediated touch.]]>http://linkedith.kaywa.com/activities/research-report-on-intergenerational-learning-project-puente.html Investigating Intergenerational Learning in Public Spaces, Mediated by Technology, in Five European Countries In society...2009-09-10T18:32:37ZEdith Ackermannprojects

Investigating Intergenerational Learning in Public Spaces, Mediated by Technology, in Five European Countries

In society today the generations are increasingly kept apart from each other. The needs of older and younger people are perceived as being irreconcilably different. Elderly people have their own clubs and day centres, and often live in communities where there are no young people. Indeed, many older people are nervous of meeting children and teenagers. Equally, young people spend most of their time in the company of their peers. Worries about abuse result in children rarely having the opportunity to mix socially with adults apart from their own families. Both the old and the young are at risk of social exclusion. The Puente project conducted action research in the area of intergenerational learning (IGL), which was defined as older members of the community learning together with young people in a collaborative way. Puente sought to draw folks who wouldn’t otherwise meet do things they couldn’t otherwise dream of, so that they could learn from each other, respect each other and broaden their horizons. Puente showed that shared interest is far more important than shared age, and that it is not difficult to create communities of practice that span generations.

This project was funded with the support of the EU commission (Minerva. Socrates. Education and Culture). The research report is available online at the future lab website
You may also download it directly by clicking puente research report

Project Partners:

University of Barcelona: Mario Barajas, Frederique Frossard
Futurelab: Martin Owen, Mary Ulicsak
University of Liege: Francoise Decortis, Laura Lentini
University of Siena: Antonio Rizzo, Edith Ackermann, Giulio Toccafondi (Project Coordinator), Silvia Torsi, Andrea Alessandrini
University of Bucharest: Bogdan Logofatu, Anisoara Dumitrache, Mihaela Gheorghe
CER (Wales): Sue Owen, Martin Owen
Campo Rosso: Rossella Magli (Project Advisor and Evaluator)
]]>http://linkedith.kaywa.com/activities/research-report-on-children-creativity-edith-ackermann-david-gauntlett-cecilia-weckstrom.html Research Report "Defining Systematic Creativity" - LEGO Learning Institute Systematic creativity, in its simplest form, is...2009-09-10T16:04:17ZEdith Ackermannprojects

Research Report "Defining Systematic Creativity" - LEGO Learning Institute

Systematic creativity, in its simplest form, is about using logic and reasoning, along with creativity and imagination, to generate ideas and artefacts that are new surprising and valuable. To be systematically creative, then, is about engaging this full spectrum through deliberate practice. Fostering the mindsets behind creativity, learning to iterate, learning to give form to our imagination and mastering a tool to think with are all essential skills part of being creative as a deliberate practice. Much like one can listen to and appreciate music, dabble with making sounds on an instrument, play music from the score or indeed improvise or ‘jam’ with others in a band – we can also build things following a ‘score’ (instructions), or we can compose our own or jam with others (free building alone or together). Only through deliberate practice does one become a master musician or a master builder.

Grounded in theoretical and empirical contributions, the research helps undo many existing myths on what it means—and takes—to be creative. The full research report is available for download Defining Systematic Creativity.

]]>http://linkedith.kaywa.com/delights/poetic-machines-2-waves-by-reuben-margolin.html Can't stop watching the motions of those mechanically-driven waves. Exquisit kinetic sculptures. Check out the videos. My...2009-07-21T03:53:23ZEdith Ackermanndelights

Can't stop watching the motions of those mechanically-driven waves. Exquisit kinetic sculptures. Check out the videos. My favorite? The yellow wiggle :).

]]>http://linkedith.kaywa.com/delights/windmill-knitting-factory-merel-karhof-royal-college-of-art.html SHOW RCA Wind Knitting Factory Merel Karhof's mechanical wind-powered knitting machine knits fast when there is a lot of...2009-07-11T17:10:07ZEdith Ackermanndelights
SHOW RCA Wind Knitting Factory

Merel Karhof's mechanical wind-powered knitting machine knits fast when there is a lot of wind and slow when there is less wind. The yarn is knitted outside and enters a building through the window in the form of a long scarf. The knitted material is then harvested and rounded-off in individually packaged scarves. Each scarf has its own label which tells you in how much time it has been knitted and on which date.



To see the poetic machine at work, check out the video on Merel's blog]]>http://linkedith.kaywa.com/sites/tinker-it-now-coolest-blog-on-creative-interaction-and-physical-computing.htmlWelcome to Tinker it now! the coolest blog by the Tinker.it! team in London. A great blog featuring everything you ever...2009-07-11T12:19:25ZEdith Ackermanntech & mediaTinker it now! the coolest blog by the Tinker.it! team in London.



A great blog featuring everything you ever wanted to know about cool stuff going on in the world of creative technologies, interaction design, physical computing and hardware hacking. I was lucky enough to meet Alexandra Deschamps Sonsino (CEO and co founder of thinker it!, with Massimo Banzi) at the LIFT Conference in Marseille, in June. En
]]>http://linkedith.kaywa.com/activities/idc-2009-como-italy-workshop-paper-on-marginalized-youth.html "So much to say...and so little fame" (graffiti by Bansky, subtitle by Edith) Access to new media both changes and reflects...2009-05-31T14:55:20ZEdith Ackermannprojects
"So much to say...and so little fame" (graffiti by Bansky, subtitle by Edith)

Access to new media both changes and reflects the ways people play, think, and learn— and more generally, how they perceive themselves, relate to others, treat things, and occupy space. We see both opportunities and challenges in today’s youth infatuation for all things digital.

As the organizers of the IDC 2009 workshop on "Digital Technologies and Marginalized Youth: Reducing the Gap", our focus is on the empowerment and successful integration of marginalized youth. We look at how marginalized youth adopt digital media and what’s in it for them. We summarize all the accepted position papers in an attempt to draw lessons useful to researchers, educators, and practitioners. To conclude, we draw from Paulo Freire's "pedagogy of the oppressed" to rethink some of the prerequisites that may enable marginalized youth to find their voices while, at the same time, speaking the tongues of others (in particular those in power). Getting “lost in translations” is what paves the ways to many youngsters social exclusion.

Pdf file of paper by E.Ackermann, F. Decortis, JP Hourcade, & H. Schelhowe.]]>http://linkedith.kaywa.com/talks/lift-france-conference-a-hands-on-future-marseille-18-20-june-2009.html 500 participants from over 40 countries gathered in Marseille to address innovations that are changing society, business and...2009-05-29T13:09:48ZEdith Ackermanntalks

500 participants from over 40 countries gathered in Marseille to address innovations that are changing society, business and culture. The theme of LIFT / FING 2009 is: "a hands-on future". "The best way to predict the future is to invent it" said Alan Kay (and Bucky Fuller). True! As long as the inventors - and those for whom we "innovate"— get a chance to discuss, build, and reflect upon their and our presents and futures. Lift's forte is — and has been—to filter promises that deliver from catchy buzzwords, and lasting and engaging cultural and technological contributions (innovations that stick) from dull "one nighters" (innovations that suck you in, use you up, and let you down). LIFT / FING offers a valuable forum for reflection, inspiration and contacts. Some of the questions participants will address: Could we build sustainable growth on desire as well as reason, on creativity as well as regulation? How can we become part of environmental measurement, evaluate and compare the impact of our own activities, become parts of our collective environmental consciousness? Join in to keep up with a fast changing world!—or learn to slow down when we're a on a road to nowhere :). For more information, check out the website]]>